Now that iPhone 4 is official, it’s clear where the iPad is gonna be heading. Steve Jobs even gave us a couple clues. Cameras First, it’s obvious that the next iPad will have a front-facing camera. Steve said that “Apple will ship tens of millions of FaceTime devices this year so there’s going to be [...]

Windows/Mac: Apple’s new Safari 5 browser isn’t quite an adventurous leap forward, but it is a solid update focused on speed, readable pages, speed, better tabbed browsing, speed, future extension support, and, oh, yeah, speed. Apple’s got an official What’s New in Safari 5 rundown, but it is, as you’d imagine, full of effervescent hyperbole [...]

Just like the Apple iOS 4.0 Gold Master, iTunes 9.2 is currently only available to Apple developers. But here’s a quick rundown of what’s new anyway. iTunes 9.2 comes with several new features and improvements, including: • Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go • Sync [...]

The Apple iOS 4.0 Gold Master has hit the iPhone Developer Center and we’re tearing it apart to find out what’s new so that you don’t have to risk your iPhones. Here’s what we’ve discovered so far. We’ve covered most of the new features of iOS 4.0 when the first beta came, but there have [...]

The first app to pull this admittedly excellent trick was called iDisplay, but it was slow and buggy. Thankfully, Air Display takes the pain and frustration—and most importantly, the lag—out of using the iPad as a spare monitor. As far as I can tell, Air Display (from the same people who make the fantastic Air [...]

As we expected, Apple has refreshed its solitary plastic MacBook (favored by cheap-ass students), bumping it from 2.26GHz to 2.4GHz. Hard drive capacity is the same as last October’s refresh, but the real story is the extra three hours’ battery-life. Full specs include: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM (same as [...]

In this week’s loving iPhone app roundup: Credit cards, swiped! Space ships, twirled! Ninjas, hurled! Sleep deprivation, nipped! Syncing cables, snipped! And more… If you’d like to view this gallery in a single page, click here. // Karate Chop: There’s nothing like a faithful port of an indisputable classic: Remember Karate Champ? It was one [...]

When the iPhone launched in 2007, it was reported that AT&T had inked a 5-year deal with Apple, giving them exclusive rights to the device until 2012. A year later it, contradictory claims were made, suggesting that AT&T’s contract would actually end in 2009, and shortly thereafter, that the company had extended their contract until [...]

So, you’ve heard about jailbreaking, and it sounds intriguing. And dangerous. (But mostly just intriguing.) Here’s how to hack your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad—yes, iPad—into an unrestricted, freshly empowered mega-machine. Jailbreaking: The What and the Why In buying an iProduct, you’re accepting that its fate will be dictated by Apple. They control what kind [...]

In this week’s personally approved app roundup: Alternative browsers, allowed! TV shows, appified! Your health, minded! Old games, emulated! Your international reputation, protected! And more… If you’d like to see this gallery as a single post, click here. Opera Mini: An alternative web browser with (!!!) a different rendering engine than than Safari Mobile. This [...]

In this Week’s sadly-still-monotasking app roundup, villains and heroes, conjured from paper! Comics, beautifully presented! Things, climbed, forever! Car crises, mitigated! Calculations, calculated! Turn-by-turn navigation, set free! And more… If you’d like the view this gallery as a single page, click here. Sketch Nation Shooter: This is a game built around a fantastic concept: It’s [...]